About
Editorial Philosophy
The editors of Programmatic Perspectives regard the journal as a
- journal shared by a community,
- forum for the exchange of ideas and scholarship pertaining to technical communication and related pedagogy and program administration,
- living classroom for teaching the scholastic, writing, and editorial practices that the technical communication community recognizes, accepts, and applies to scholarship, and
- site for mentorship of writers, scholars, and administrators.
Sections of the Journal
Articles. These articles initiate, extend, and sustain scholarly conversations about the administration of academic programs in technical, scientific, and professional communication. They employ various methods of investigation and range from 6,000-10,000 words. Articles should follow the APA documentation style.
Program Showcase. These articles showcase academic programs in the family of Technical and Scientific Communication. The purpose of the showcase is to share a sense of history, identity, engagement, and change in the administration of our academic sites for professional development. Each program in our community is a response to some local need and is created and administered with a sense of both local and broader community, academic, and professional values. This section seeks to capture the knowledge, experience, and conceptual frameworks that drive our administrative activities. In other words, the showcase seeks to capture what is useful, interesting, and challenging about the administration of a specific program, with the ultimate goal of building upon our shared knowledge.
Keynote. The first issue of each year will include the keynote presentation from the previous year's annual meeting. If available and approved by teh speaker, audio or video clips will accompany the written text.
Editorials. Editorials are short position statements, generally 2,000-3,000 words, written by any CPTSC member, including the journal's editors. Relevant programmatic or administrative topics that do not replicate position statements published in the proceedings will be considered for the journal.
In Memoriam. This section offers tributes to influential members of the CPTSC community who have passed on. When possible, multiple celebrants will reflect on the contribution and impact of the deceased.
Book Reviews. Authors are encouraged to submit reviews of books or a collection of articles when such reviews illuminate the work of technical communication administrators interested in the theory and practice of program development and administration.
Tracy Bridgeford
Tracy Bridgeford teaches courses in and directs the Graduate Certificate in Technical Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She also directs the English Department internship program at UNO. As Chief Information Officer, Tracy maintains CPTSC's website and other communication needs. With Drs. Karla Saari Kitalong and Dickie Selfe, she co-edited Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication. Tracy also guest edited (with Michael Moore) a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly on Techne and Technical Communication. She is also the education officer for the Heartland Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Information about her courses, research, and teaching philosophy can be found on her personal website.
Karla Saari Kitalong
Karla Saari Kitalong is Associate Professor of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. She has taught at the university level since 1992, both at Michigan Technological University and at the University of Central Florida. Her consulting experience with both corporate and nonprofit clients includes teaching technical and business communication, conducting usability and work process evaluations, and assessing the usability and effectiveness of digital technologies and online learning programs. She has collaborated on successful grants totaling more than $3 million, and has published books, journal articles, and chapters on usability, visual communication, technical communication, and writing pedagogy. She was Director of Writing Programs at the University of Central Florida from 2006-2008, and in August 2009, she will begin a term as Director of Writing at Michigan Technological University.
Bill Williamson
Bill Williamson is Associate Professor of Professional and Technical Writing at Saginaw Valley State University where he serves as coordinator of PTW programs. He has taught writing and design courses (primarily with a technical communication connection) at Michigan Technological University, the University of Northern Iowa, and now at SVSU. In addition, he has offered through consultation a variety of workshops focused on job seeking, grant seeking, and various elements of technical communication. Bill has held assistant or associate editor positions for scholarly publications such as Computers and Composition, and the CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. His publishing projects include book chapters on program administration and cross-curriculum pedagogical design. He is currently developing a supplemental textbook for Pearson. Bill served CPTSC as Information Officer from 2000-2005. He now serves as co-editor for Programmatic Perspectives, the journal of CPTSC.
Laurence José
Laurence José is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Michigan Technological University. Her dissertation draws on rhetoric, linguistics, and literacy theory to explore the role and meaning of international technical communication for the disciplinary construction of scientific and technical communication. She is currently working as a graduate teaching instructor in the Humanities Department at Michigan Tech. where she has taught undergraduate courses in French, technical communication, and in written, oral, and visual communication. She has also taught French linguistics and general linguistics at the University Marc Bloch (France) from 1997-2001, and has published several articles in linguistic journals.
Krystal Gabel-Beccard
Krystal Gabel-Beccard is a master’s student in English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha , focusing her studies in communication and rhetoric. Her teaching and research interests include first-year and advanced composition programs; feminist rhetoric; Midwestern female writers; writing center pedagogy; and prison pen pal programs. She is a graduate teaching assistant and writing center consultant. She previously was an editorial assistant at the Midlands Business Journal and assistant editor for the literary magazine, The Briar Cliff Review.
The Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) requires the following agreements of prospective authors.
- Authors acknowledge that their submission is original material, not previously published, and not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication.
- Authors grant the CPTSC permission to publish the submission in Programmatic Perspectives. Authors acknowledge that Programmatic Perspectives is an online publication, and that the submission will thus be available in that form indefinitely.
The CPTSC grants colleges, universities, and libraries permission to use materials published in Programmatic Perspectives free of charge for educational purposes.
Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State University
Jo Allen, Widener University
Stevens Amidon, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Cheryl Ball, Illinois State University
Steve Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Stuart Blythe, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Jennifer Bowie, Georgia State University
Ann Brady, Michigan Tech University
Kelli Cargile Cook, Texas Tech University
J. Harrison Carpenter, University of Colorado at Boulder
Nancy Coppola, New Jersey Institute of Technology
David Dayton, Towson University
Stan Dicks, North Carolina State University
Sam Dragga, Texas Tech University
James Dubinsky, Virginia Tech
Angela Eaton, Texas Tech University
Michelle Eble, Eastern Carolina University
Doug Eyman, George Mason University
Jay Gordon, Youngstown State University
Jeffrey Grabill, Michigan State University
Barbara Heifferon, Rochester Institute of Technology
James Henry, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Brent Henze, North Carolina State University
K. Alex IIyasova, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Dan Jones, University of Central Florida
James Kalmbach, Illinois State University
Bill Karis, Clarkson University
Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology
Barbara L’Eplattenier, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bernadette Longo, University of Minnesota
Michael G. Moran, University of Georgia
Rick Mott, Eastern Kentucky University
Cezar Ornatowski, San Diego State University
Elizabeth Pass, James Madison University
Tiffany Craft Portewig, Auburn University
Janice (“Ginny”) Redish, Redish & Associates, Inc.
Geoff Sauer, Iowa State University
Blake Scott, University of Central Florida
Graham Smart, Carleton University
Kirk St. Amant, East Carolina University
Barry Thatcher, New Mexico State University
Wanda Worley, Purdue University
Dave Yeats, Perceptive Sciences Corporation